Gilbert Patten (pen name of Burt L. Standish) was the author of a pulp series for
Street & Smith called The Amazing Frank Merriwell Stories. Cutler was the author
of Gilbert Patten and his Frank Merriwell saga: a study in sub-literary fiction, 1896-1913 (1934).

The John L. Cutler Research Collection Relating to Gilbert Patten consists of research material for Cutler's book for a book Gilbert Patten and his Frank Merriwell saga: a study in sub-literary fiction, 1896-1913. The collection includes notes, photographs, printed material, essays, correspondence.